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Not So Beloved
At the first performance of  Puccini's "Madama Butterfly," the audience made bird, cow and goat calls, ensuring it was one of opera's all-time colossal flops.

Quotable
by  Anne Lamott, writer
"Laughter is carbonated holiness."

Point Of Origin
While tsunamis have been recorded in every ocean on Earth, about 80 percent of all tsunamis occur in the Pacific Ring of Fire.

Still on the Books
In Logan County, Colo., it is illegal for a man to kiss a woman while she is asleep.

State Stats
Metairie, La., is home to the longest bridge over water in the world; the 24-mile-long Lake Pontchartrain causeway.

Baby Blues
A wolf pup's eyes are blue at birth but turn yellow by the time they are eight months old.